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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. Lawyers on the platform love the experience.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

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We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. LB: Currently, we are about 75% and that’s really because in this phase we have developed what I think is the most critical aspect of our platform, which is the technology that allows us to truly build our community. Again, we’ve made this very easy.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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How Digsy Is Using Data, And Deals, To Drive Real Estate Sales

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He's the former CTO at Stocktwits, and he did the analysis and found out a lot of stuff. After we launched our first, paid pilot, we had 100 percent adoption of the platform, which is pretty impressive. I left in 2012, and I was one of the top 5 of the top 10. What we've done a lot is really focused on hiring.

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CoFoundersLab Matches Entrepreneurs Scientifically

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In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities. They took the “Match.com for entrepreneurs” model literally and hired the former CTO of Match.com to create the algorithms to help predict and recommend matches.